Getting Justice and Getting Even: Legal Consciousness among Working-Class Americans

by Sally Engle Merry

Book Overview

Ordinary Americans often bring family and neighborhood problems to court, seeking justice or revenge. The litigants in these local squabbles encounter law at its boundaries in the corridors of busy city courthouses, in the offices of court clerks, and in the church parlors used by mediation programs.

Getting Justice and Getting Even concerns the legal consciousness of working class Americans and their experiences with court and mediation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226520692
• ISBN13: 9780226520698
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"